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Common Name:
Japanese Climbing Fern
Common Name:
Southern Lady Fern
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Athyrium filix-femina var. asplenioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Athyrium asplenioides
Common Name:
Silvery Glade Fern, Silvery Spleenwort
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Diplazium acrostichoides
Common Name:
Autumn Fern, Japanese Red Shield Fern, Japanese Shield Fern
Common Name:
Christmas Fern
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Polystichum acrostichoides var. lonchitoides
Common Name:
Mariana Maiden Fern, Swordfern, False Maiden Fern
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Dryopteris setigera
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Thelypteris torresiana
Common Name:
Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Common Name:
Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Lorinseria areolata
Common Name:
Ebony Spleenwort
Common Name:
Loblolly Pine, Old Field Pine
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Common Name:
Virginia Pine, Scrub Pine, Jersey Pine
Pollen cones ellipsoid-cylindric, 10-20mm, red-brown or yellow, per Flora of North America.
Common Name:
Eastern Hemlock, Canada Hemlock
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tsuga canadensis
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Common Name:
Eastern Red Cedar
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sabina virginiana
Pollen cones about 1/8" long, terminal, numerous, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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Common Name:
Common Cattail, Broadleaf Cattail
Female flowers in brown cylindrical spike; male spike above and contiguous, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Bunched Arrowhead
Flowers usually in 2-4 whorls of 3, upper usually staminate, lower pistillate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Arrowhead, Duck Potato
Showy white flowers with 3 petals, the lower flowers usually female, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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Common Name:
River Cane, Giant Cane
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Arundinaria gigantea ssp. gigantea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Arundinaria gigantea
Its flowering and subsequent death reported to be at 30-40 year intervals, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide.
Common Name:
Golden Bamboo, Fishpole Bamboo
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Phyllostachys aurea
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Common Name:
River Oats, Northern Sea Oats, Fish-on-a-Pole, Indian Woodoats
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Uniola latifolia
Numerous flattened spikelets in an open, terminal, drooping panicle, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Weeping Lovegrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Eragrostis curvula
Panicles 20-30cm long, branches solitary or in pairs, ascending, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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Common Name:
Orchard Grass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Dactylis glomerata
Panicle's few, distant, stiff branches ascending, or spreading at anthesis, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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Common Name:
Rescue Grass
(?)
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Bromus catharticus
Panicle open, as much as 20cm long, branches naked at base, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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Common Name:
Virginia Wild-rye, Common Eastern Wild-rye, Terrell Grass
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Elymus striatus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Elymus virginicus var. virginicus
The "bow-legged" glumes are a good mark of recognition, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
Common Name:
Elegant Hairgrass, Annual Silver Hairgrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)
Aira caryophyllea var. capillaris
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Aira elegantissima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Aira elegans
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Aspris capillaris
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Common Name:
Green Needlegrass, Blackseed Needlegrass, Eastern Needlegrass, Black Oatgrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Stipa avenacea
Each floret has an outer bract (lemma) & inner bract (palea) & naked flower, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
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Common Name:
Bermuda Grass, Scotch Grass
INCLUDING
Flora of North America
Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Capriola dactylon
Its creeping habit & palmately compound inflorescence make it easy to ID, per www.missouriplants.com
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Common Name:
Sweet Vernal Grass
Panicles yellowish-brown, cylindrical, dense, usually less than 6cm long, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
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Common Name:
Yellow Foxtail
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Setaria lutescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chaetochloa lutescens
4-12 bristles below each spikelet, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Common Name:
Nodding Foxtail Grass, Giant Foxtail-grass, Chinese Foxtail
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Setaria faberii
Panicle conspicuously nodding; spikelets about 3mm long, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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Common Name:
Green Foxtail, Green Bristlegrass
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Setaria viridis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chaetochloa viridis
Panicle erect or ~ nodding, cylindric but tapering a little at the summit, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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Common Name:
Vasey Grass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Paspalum urvillei
Inflorescence 7-20 ascending to arched-spreading racemes on a single axis, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
Hairy Crabgrass, Northern Crabgrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Digitaria sanguinalis var. sanguinalis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Syntherisma sanguinalis
Seedhead branches arise from different points of attachment along the stalk, per Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses.
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Common Name:
Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Panicum anceps ssp. anceps
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum anceps
Rather crowded somewhat curved subsecund spikelets, set obliquely, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
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Common Name:
Switchgrass, Prairie Switchgrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum virgatum var. virgatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Panicum virgatum var. virgatum
The inflorescence is open and freely banched, spreading, pyramidal, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Common Name:
Velvet Witchgrass, Velvet Panicum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Dichanthelium scoparium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum scoparium
Panicle's rachis villous, the branches spreading-ascending, villous, spotted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Japanese Stiltgrass, Japanese Grass, Nepalese Browntop, Nepal Grass
INCLUDING
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Microstegium vimineum var. imberbe
INCLUDING
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Microstegium vimineum var. vimineum
Terminal, thin and spikelike raceme, to 3" long, per Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests.
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Common Name:
Silver Plumegrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Saccharum alopecuroidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Erianthus divaricatus
Panicle 20-30cm long, branches ascending or spreading, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Common Name:
Sugarcane Plumegrass, Giant Plumegrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Erianthus giganteus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Erianthus saccharoides
Spikelets well separated at flowering, then expanding into a plumelike mass, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Splitbeard Bluestem, Silvery Bluestem
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Andropogon ternarius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Andropogon ternarius
Grass flowers usually w 2 lodicules, 3 stamens, ovary w 2 feathery stigmas, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
)
Common Name:
Broomsedge, Broomsedge Bluestem, Old-field Broomstraw, "Sedge Grass"
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Andropogon virginicus var. virginicus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Andropogon virginicus
Racemes shorter than the bractlike leaves clasping them, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
Common Bushy Bluestem, Bushy Beardgrass, Bog Broomsedge, Clustered Bluestem
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Andropogon glomeratus
Paired racemes short-peduncled, sitting between 2 clasping bractlike leaves, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
Johnsongrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Sorghum halepense
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Holcus halepensis
Open spreading panicle 15-50cm long, w numerous whorled projecting branches, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Common Name:
Yellow Indiangrass, Prairie Indiangrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Sorghastrum nutans
The prominent anthers are golden yellow, per How to Know the Grasses by R.W. Pohl.
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Common Name:
Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe
Slender club-shaped spadix enclosed in a narrow pointed green spathe, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley & the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Virginia Dayflower
All petals blue, ephemeral, one slightly smaller than others, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
)
Common Name:
Asiatic Dayflower, Common Dayflower
INCLUDING
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Commelina communis var. communis
INCLUDING
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Commelina communis var. ludens
Lower petal white and reduced, so the flower appears to be only 2 petals, per Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition.
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Common Name:
Murdannia, Asian Spiderwort, Marsh Dewflower, Wart-removing Herb
Superficially suggestive of a miniature Spiderwort, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Soft Rush, Common Rush
Branched inflorescence spreads laterally from base of the involucral leaf, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Path Rush, Poverty Rush
Sepals and petals alike, narrow and pointed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Common Greenbrier, Common Catbrier, Bullbrier, Horsebrier
Flowers in axillary umbels, perianth greenish, campanulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
)
Common Name:
Stretchberry, Fringed Greenbrier, Catbrier, Tramp's Trouble
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax bona-nox
Stalk of the umbel > 1.5x as long as the subtending leaf petiole, per Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Whiteleaf Greenbrier, Wild Sarsaparilla, Sawbrier
)
Common Name:
Coral Greenbrier, Red-berried Swamp Smilax
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax walteri
Perianth brownish-yellow (vs. that of S. rotundifolia is green), per Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Bamboo-vine, Blaspheme-vine, Wild Bamboo, Laurel-leaf Greenbriar
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax laurifolia
)
Common Name:
Little Sweet Betsy, Purple Toadshade
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trillium hugeri
Sepals lanceolate, 3-5cm long, erect to divergent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Catesby's Trillium, Rosy Wake-robin, Bashful Trillium, Rose Trillium
Petals strongly reflexed above the tube; anthers curved outward, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Smooth Solomon's Seal
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Polygonatum commutatum
Flowers tubular with 6 short lobes, greenish when young, white when mature, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Garden Star of Bethlehem
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Ornithogalum umbellatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Ornithogalum umbellatum
Stamens about half the length of the perianth, the filaments membranous-winged, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Starch Grape-hyacinth, Blue Bottles
(?)
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Muscari atlanticum
Corolla ellipsoid-ovoid, distinctly longer than wide, the lobes erect, per Weakley's Flora.
)
Common Name:
Field Garlic, Wild Onion, Crow Garlic, Onion Grass
Flowers, if present, pinkish, on stalks c 10-20mm long, per www.plant-identification.co.uk
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